I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions,… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
“She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
